CHAPTER 4

Collaboration’s Arsenal

Catallaxy—from Greek—literally to change from an enemy into a friend; to voluntarily set up exchange between us, admit the other into community.

 

 

Parallels for Enterprise Improvement

Hayek related with simplicity, how deep structures work to spawn order at interfaces where the actors mutually extend. He put the principles so clear that GM issued his Road to Serfdom to every employee. Reader’s Digest sent a condensed version to the homes of middle America. Hayek was an economist, but civilization is civilization, and order is order. Parallels stare us right in the face.

Relating Hayek’s work on catallaxy into operations means translating economic arguments. It is not far from econ to politics. We will stick ...

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